Removing the 3.5mm jack would be suicide, even for Apple.
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Like shipping a laptop with a single port?
You tell 'em Jack!
BTW, the iPhone is the only phone I ever even considered. I will buy it what ever the shape, size, configuration and even what ever the price. There, I've said it.
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Lol this further confirms my already confirmed decision to get the plus next time around.
I just hope that someday they give the plus an actual 2208x1242 display so that it gets rid of the downsampling process, would probably pretty much solve the performance gap between the regular and plus models.
I just hope that someday they give the plus an actual 2208x1242 display so that it gets rid of the downsampling process, would probably pretty much solve the performance gap between the regular and plus models.
No, because even that computer still has a headphone jack...
We're talking about replacing something which has been an industry standard for decades. Something which most people still use regularly. Something which phone manufacturers already tried to replace, back when it was all about making phones as small as possible, and they failed.
What's more is that with the Mac they have already transitioned the major peripherals to BT. In contrast, unless you count Beats, Apple headphones are still wired.
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I think your math is wrong. Adding the memory won't change COGS as much as you seem to think.
Additionally, we know Apple likes to limit the number of SKUs, which also helps limit costs. So if they introduce a 256GB model in a specific product line, they are fairly likely to eschew the 16GB model in that line.
lol yet there will be 16GB as default model 
seriously though,add OLED display instead of pale,old ass inferior tech LCD,and I'll return to iPhone.
seriously though,add OLED display instead of pale,old ass inferior tech LCD,and I'll return to iPhone.
Won't ever swap sizes now I've got the 6+ and 256GB still won't hold all my music, but it'll help.
512GB will be enough, but probably not by the time they release it. Lightning port for headphones would definitely not be suicide, a simple connector would be fine, Apple would be smart to give them away for the first year or so.
512GB will be enough, but probably not by the time they release it. Lightning port for headphones would definitely not be suicide, a simple connector would be fine, Apple would be smart to give them away for the first year or so.
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Doesn't it cost 2-5$ or something to jump to 32gb over 16? Across millions of units, that is an ass load of lost money.
I understand if the phone is the only computer some people may have access to, but 256gb of storage I'd rather have that on a bigger device (iPad Pro.)
Ahh, see through tech, would not be futuristic without it.Sci-fi has the answer.
I imagine another advances have cost as well, a dollar or two is nothing, all about that up sell. If they end up doing a 32 vs 128 for $100 I would go for more. Even at the current 16GB vs 64GB
OT, but this reminds me of getting sodas at work. They have a policy of "bring your own cup, it's $1.29", so I bring my 64oz Truck Stop cup to get diet coke. (listen, I've heard all of the "it's going to kill you" crapola. If you need to post how I'm going to die, that's a given as a price of being born.)
The clerks take it upon themselves to correct the injustice of getting that much soda for $1.29 by trying to charge me double the cost of a 32oz soda. When I point out how the cost increments by 10 cents for each increment in size:
16oz - $1.19
24oz - $1.29
32oz - $1.39
and ask, why they don't charge $2.38 for a 32oz soda, they say, "the price is $1.39, as posted." I then point out that the sign that says, "Bring your own cup, it's $1.29," they reply with, "that's not what was meant."
Then, I ask what they did mean by this, the usual reply is that if you bring a smaller than 20oz cup in. We then go into how they know this, and then I pull out the e-mail discussion I had with the director of food services where I work, and it is indeed supposed to be $1.29.
It's gotten so the new ones are warned when I walk up with my soda.
The moral: Never argue with an engineer. Sooner or later you'll realize they're right.
I'm most excited about the hidden antenna bands. Two years of eyesore has been enough.
Lol. Considering.... The first iPhone came out 8 years ago. And it has been upgraded from 128MB to 256MB to 512MB to 1GB to 2GB.
Do the math and it makes me think you don't know jack diddly squat.
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Do you honestly expect anything close to that?
Again, no. Optical was already being supplanted by digital distribution by the time Apple ditched the optical drive.
Im not saying that the headphone jack can't be replaced. ****, I wish it'd be replaced already. It's a horribly obsolete standard. But it's a standard which has endured. Getting rid of it isnt going to be easy. You need a viable replacement on the market first. Otherwise this is going to be the 3rd gen iPod shuffle all over again.
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True. Then again, the iPhone would still have Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, and other means of connectivity. Not to mention using the Lightning port itself for headphones.
So, you mean like the floppy disk?
as someone who thinks there's no such thing as "too much" storage and have the 128 GB versions of the iPad and iPhone even I think 250 Gb is ridiculous. Especially considering Apple is so sleazy/stingy with storage on their "real" computers. But I'm not one to lecture people on what their computing needs are. It drives me nuts when people think they have a right to question why I want/needed a 64 GB phone/tablet, then a 128 GB phone/tablet. I'm skipping the next few gens of phones and will probably get an 8s in 3 or 4 yrs, but when I do it'll be whatever the max capacity is at the time.
I'm hopeful on some of it. I mainly hope they leave the headphone jack and add OIS to the 4.7" phone. Smaller screen size shouldn't mean limited features.
Corporations love that model to give out to employees